Off-duty Greenwood officer attacks wife, friends, officers at party

6:00 PM,
Jan. 1, 2014

Joey Rodriquez, 41

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Deputies say a Greenwood police officer strangled his wife in a fight this morning at a party and then attacked his friends who tried to break it up, the officers who came to arrest him and the medics who tried to treat him.

Just after 1 a.m. officers were called to a home on Diamond Ridge Road southwest of Greenwood after at least two 911 callers reported that there was an out-of-control off-duty officer attacking people.

When Johnson County sheriff's deputies arrived, they found an extremely intoxicated Joey Rodriguez, 41, lying in the road, bleeding from his face. ...